County Executive Thomas Suozzi has waded into a 20-year-old land scandal as he quietly tries to sell off most of Nassau's 99-year leased property in Mitchel Field, a former air base developed with colleges, office buildings, recreational and cultural facilities.

Without soliciting bids or giving public notice, Suozzi has accepted offers of purchase from two leaseholders for nearly 13 acres of public land in the county's sprawling office park that includes the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale.

Quentin Roosevelt Associates, represented by the law firm of Nassau's Democratic Party attorney Steven Schlesinger, is purchasing the 10.3-acre site of its office building for $8.52 million. Bergwall Realty, an original leaseholder, is buying its 2.2-acre site for $732,300.

The deals are expected to go to the county legislature for approval on June 8. Suozzi is looking to sell most of the county-owned land to the current tenants, who own the buildings on the properties.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/n...0,5664905.story

Wait, what?
Anybody care to dumb this down for me?
:bag:

From what I can tell this story is completely irrelevant. Besides, all Lighthouse stories are supposed to be in the Lighthouse forum. I will move it to it's correct place.

I think I read one excerpt that said (paraphrasing) that the land would be offered for sale to the lessees of the buildings, but none of the lessees other than the ones they got offers from were interested. (Which I would assume included Chuck).

Even if Wang decided to buy the land we would need to get approval for the Lighthouse from TOH.

At $300,000 for an acre of land in Manorville it seems awfully sweet the deal for commercial land on the hempstead plain for under 1M an acre.

:letssee: